Skylight Repair Fleet

A roof window is frequently assumed to be the source of water that entered at its edges. The surround is separate work from the unit itself, and where the lead has lifted, roof flashing repair resolves it without disturbing the glazing at all.

Fleet’s Edwardian and inter-war houses are predominantly two storeys with pitched roofs, so a lifted surround on those slopes is not visible from ground level and the earliest indication is usually discoloured plaster in the room below.

A roof window that has gone opaque between the panes has lost the seal around its glazing unit, and cleaning will not restore clarity. The glazing is a separate item from the frame that holds it, so a clouded unit rarely means disturbing the covering around it.

A single unit frequently provides the only daylight in a Fleet loft room or bungalow landing, so a clouded pane leaves the room dark.

A room that is noticeably colder beneath its roof window has usually lost the seal between the frame and the kerb, or the insulation has slumped back between the rafters at the reveal. Both are reachable without removing the unit.

In Fleet’s pre-war streets a roof window is usually a retrofit into the loft, and the room it illuminates sits immediately beneath the slope. Cold air at a deteriorated kerb seal therefore enters an occupied room rather than an unheated loft.

A roof window fitted by a previous owner is inherited with the property. The paperwork transferred at the sale frequently carries no record of when the unit was installed or who dressed the lead around it. A roof window of unknown age warrants inspection while its flashing and the covering around it remain sound.

Where a roof window was retrofitted into one of Fleet’s clay-tiled 1920s and 1930s roofs, the covering around it is older than the unit itself.

Not every roof window is worth repairing. Where the frame has moved on its kerb and the glazing has failed as well, a repair lasts only a few months instead of years, and a fresh skylight installation in the existing opening is the most appropriate solution. Where the frame is sound, we will confirm that a repair is sufficient.

Fleet’s older houses carry clay tile and slate, so the lead for a replacement unit is dressed into whichever covering surrounds the opening.

A director establishes the point of entry before the unit itself is assumed to be responsible. Where it proves to have arrived from a valley, a cracked tile or a lifted flashing further up the slope, a director records that in the written findings. The team then resolves it as a roof leak repair instead.

What is wrong, what is proposed and what it costs are documented within 48 hours of that inspection. The quotation itemises every component to be renewed and prices the labour separately. There is no obligation and there are no hidden extras: the price you accept is the price you pay.

The team lays dust sheets beneath the opening and repositions anything standing underneath it with you. Where a visit has to leave the unit open, the team makes the roof weathertight before leaving the property. Debris from the reveal is removed progressively as the work proceeds.

The work is completed by our own team throughout, with no subcontracted labour. A director oversees the repair and remains your point of contact from the initial inspection to the final visit. Any addition to the scope is presented to you before it is carried out.

The team dresses the lead down correctly, leaves the glazing clean and makes good the surrounding finish at the point of repair. A director explains what was done and what to monitor before the team leaves. The written record of the repair follows with the invoice.

Most are. What decides it is the condition of the frame, the kerb it is bedded on and the lead around it, all of which the initial inspection establishes. Where those are serviceable, a repair is the appropriate course and usually limited in scope. Where the frame has moved and the surround has failed with it, we will confirm this before any work is booked.

We respond within 48 hours. A leaking roof window takes priority over planned work, because water at the reveal reaches the plaster and the insulation immediately. Fleet lies near Farnborough, Aldershot and Farnham, and we cover the Edwardian centre, the bungalow roads and the estates developed on the town’s edges. A first inspection is ordinarily arranged within that period. The flashing and the side soakers are examined then, before any quotation is produced.

Yes, and most of the units we repair were fitted by another installer, often long before the current owner moved in. The work proceeds from the arrangement already on the roof: the unit, the kerb beneath it and the flashing kit around it. A serviceable frame is retained and the surround renewed around it. Where a unit is genuinely beyond sensible repair, we will state this clearly.

Only as far as answering the question accurately requires. A roof window sits within a covering, and Fleet properties carry coverings of markedly different generations, from pre-war clay tile and slate to the original underlay on the newest estates. If the battens, the underlay or the flashing are in doubt, a roof inspection records their condition rather than by visual assessment alone. Where the covering itself has failed, the quotation includes that work as well.

By telephone or through the contact form. A director attends to inspect the unit, the kerb and the lead around it, at a time arranged around your day. The written, itemised findings and price follow within 48 hours of that inspection, and a director then schedules the repair at your convenience. The same applies wherever you are across our Fleet service area.